Death
Now there's a somber title, but it kind of describes how I'm feeling about life right now. Now there's an oxymoron too. Death vs Life: we take life so much for granted until something happens and death stalks our door. Then we are extremely grateful for the life we have been given and well we should be. But how do you prepare yourself for the inevitability of death or can you? Must it always come as a surprise and wallop you on the side of the head and while you are groping and grasping for meaning to this untimely death, another one comes and wallops you on the other side. That's a little of how I have been feeling these last two and a half weeks: a little walloped on all sides. Since Tuesday, August 28, 2012, six people have died. The last two are not people I have known real well, but they were patients at the clinic. All six of these people died an untimely death--it doesn't seem fair, it doesn't seem right, but yet I know God has a plan...